skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always try Firefox every 6 months or so but end up going back to a Chromium based browser after a few days. It's never anything major but for example this issue with the address bar suggesting the root domain instead of the pages I actually visit drives me nuts - https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/a2wz6x/firefox_add...

I'm glad they're continuing to improve the browser, maybe this update will be the one that convinces me to switch!
Correct. I don't understand why people suggest direct revenue streams would help in this regard. Have you seen Facebook's profit margins? They don't need to spy on people.
I have never seen such an amazing and accurate depiction of how people deal with grief as what this show presents. Beyond the computing history aspects of it, which touch upon some esoteric but important epochs, the human drama really impressed me by season 4.

Who remembers the short-lived Lucasfilm project 'Habitat'? Accurately rendered in the show as the interactive social network.
Since I made the point, I'll also argue that it's often not relevant. Most of the time the particular error distribution doesn't matter, and significant figures are a good enough approximation. The biggest issue most people have with them is that they're first taught in high-school chemistry class, and they're not taught error analysis first. Significant figures are then seen as difficult complications compared to just copying down what your calculator outputs, instead of a simplified approximation compared to the work needed to do a full error analysis. Sig figs thus get seen as something difficult and harder than the default, rather than as an easier shortcut than the default.

Also most calculators and unit converters don't take them into account by default (or at all) since someone might actually have accurate tolerance information to do a full analysis.
If the Al-Qarawiyyin library was not able to resist Islamic influence, as I suspect based on extensive precedent, then the oldest libraries in the West are Christian or Muslim. Which I suspect had a large bearing on preserved history. I wonder how much interesting stuff was destroyed because it didn’t conform to the party line.
We can all ask ourself : How many time I would accept to be confined now to live one more day/week/month/year at the end of my life. Now we can use this ratio and apply it to our current choice to calibrate how much we stay confined.
European Commission fines Valve and 5 publishers 8M€ for geo-blocking practices
Interesting, thank you. I had no idea. Especially since it was done by the Christian crusaders themselves.

I guess the article makes no distinction between a Sacking and a Fall.
See https://web.archive.org/web/20011217183836/http://www.norc.u...

Now, there is a key difference here as I mentioned: tens to hundreds of votes is a tiny margin, much smaller than anything we saw in 2020 for the presidential race. That’s the larger point: 2000 was a much, much tighter race and there was far more legitimacy to questioning a result which had more confusion in the election process and a margin of victory smaller by an order of magnitude or more.
I listened to a podcast that included this story, it was a Facebook decision. Mark phoned and gave them a few hours heads up that 'Instagram' had decided not to allow the embeds any more. They actually got it delayed 24 hours or something like that to avoid breaking Twitter.
There's already a passwordless technology; it's called Ethereum and Metamask. Store your private key on a hardware wallet, and boom, you have a very secure account controlled by the user where no password or login required to interact with applications. It's also free
When you're writing code in a dynamic language, you're still using a type-checker; it's just in your head instead of the computer. This is a fantastic waste of mental energy and working memory.
I think it's safe to assume that they were probably at "Tier 2" prior to Nov 20?

Due to the way that Covid is stealthy, you don't see the effects of policy measures for 14 days or more. It's not very surprising that policy measures would lag behind the curves.

And I don't really see a problem with the extra hospital beds. This particular pandemic is really hard to manage. If someone accidentally prepares more hospital beds than they need, that's perfectly fine by me. That's a much better plan than not having enough.

Unless you think that protecting citizens from harm (foreign or domestic) is not a duty of the government, I guess they're doing as good a job as they can, given the circumstances. It's not pretty, but then again it can't be.
If you're not paying for your news, you're a product being sold to advertisers.
Thanks for the clarification. I confused the cert cache with the apple server logs.
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Speak at EU Data Protection Conference This Thusday
More like NATFAG in-fighting in this case
Very good point. Seems like yet another example of how carefully optimizing all the individual parts of a system can paradoxically de-optimize the overall system.
blink A plot to do what exactly? Python is amazing, both in its traditional typeless form and in its typed forms. :D

Type checking mainly starts pulling its weight in large codebases, or otherwise in long-lived and large programs maintained by rotating groups of people over long periods.
Once your data grows very large, a successfully-implemented sharding solution actually improves availability, rather than reducing it.

With a huge monolithic database, a failure causes downtime for your entire product/company. Replica cloning and backups are slow. Major version upgrades are stressful because it's all-or-nothing.

With a sharded environment, a single shard failure only impacts a portion of your userbase, and smaller databases are faster to perform operational actions on.

There are definitely major downsides to sharding, but they tend to be more on the application side in my experience.
Preload was pretty broken in Chrome for quite a while (I'm still not sure whether they fixed the issues, actually) so it's possible there wasn't ever much pressure to implement it
Agreed, but I'd clarify that being open (source, or with little vendor lock-in effects) can certainly make a product better in the eyes for certain market segments. Building a AWS without vendor lock-in sounds like a interesting proposition
googling "Czech word for forced labour" says: "nucené práce"
googling "Czech word for slave work" says: "šetřit práci"
Thank you for the feedback! I agree and also humbly disagree. Let me please explain.

So the product and service is #1. We have various ideas how to execute this. This doesn't mean we believe we can "beat" Amazon. That isn't our goal at all, nor does it need to be. Our goal is to make it easy and convenient for the average American to shop sustainable friendly products.

That said, because it's worker owned co-op vs an investor owned business there is potential to actually build "a customer centric company" ;) This is bc unlike Amazon we aren't under same economic pressures as a typical VC or investor owned company.

Plus, there is growing concern around income inequality, job security and general democracy both in the work place and in society. Consumers are looking for alternatives. By building this as a worker owned co-op we address all these things and more.

Yes "content" or product/service is king, but by building it as a worker owned co-op we may actually have a market advantage that consumers will be able to see.
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If Revue were a big company perhaps. In this case I think its just to give Revue more value through the brand association.
Most of those are now off by default, as it should be, except that if you scroll down you still see a number of "legitimate interest" ones enabled, even though you can turn them off manually.

Taking a page from the RealNetworks playbook from twenty years ago, I see. Put the shit you don't care about up top and unchecked, keeping the interesting stuff checked but below the fold.
The big advantages for me are autocomplete, documentation, and simple bug-finding (you passed an Optional[str] to something expecting a str; that’s almost surely a bug). Being able to hover my cursor over methods and get their arguments and doc strings is invaluable. But that’s only possible if the type of the caller is known.
Like this:

https://www.electricitymap.org/map
I was saying poorer than the US.
Firefox is so good.

It's a continual source of amazement for me that a majority of HNers are using a browser made by the largest data gobbler in the world, instead of one that actually tries to prevent spying on users.
The financial viability of a documentary isn't necessarily tied to the importance of the underlying story. This one is about a bigger story than Russian doping, but it doesn't appear to be nearly as good of a documentary as the director's previous work. Icarus won an Oscar while The Dissident isn't among to top 10 or so favorites in its category.

When purchasing a documentary, a network would either want something that could potentially become a big hit or potential add prestige by competing in awards. It doesn't appear likely that this documentary would have done either.
In case it's helpful, file imports to Lockwise can be enabled: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-login-data-file

Not sure what do you mean by "field edits", I can edit the username/password just fine...?
I've never had this problem over the course of like a decade using FF, I suspect it might be due to your configuration. What kind of message do you get when it happens?
Indeed. But approval of the vaccines is centralised, and is demonstrably slower than US, UK, and others. And wasn't purchasing strategy (with heavy reliance on AZ) also centralised? [1]

You think it's an anomaly that EU countries are below UK and the US (despite the publicised failure of the Trump regime to plan for this)?

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-defends-joint-...
Could this also be done via AI or other means to auto-magically select/cut/stitch the videos together?
I’d love to see a follow up of basically the same study with different kinds of fake news. If you looked at the 18 fake and 18 true headlines used here, it’s mostly stuff like “woman found 15 years dead on Clinton property” and “trump makes gun comments that anger french.”

I’d like to see whether this same effects generalize to the “zomg: coffee cures cancer” sort of scientific illiteracy bad reporting.
Maybe you're paying for the news and the product being sold...

Unless the publication is a non-profit, why would they leave this on the table?
I think they are doing it for the right reasons. I think Shell has been working on next-gen fuels/tech for a while and even published a shareholder plan concerning their move to renewables.

If they do dismantle it, I don't see how they could avoid antitrust issues.
I'd guess down votes are because the comment is ignoring the scope of the objections, the magnitude of the objections, the basis for the objections, the outcome sought by the objectors, and the response of the candidate for whom the objections were intended to benefit.

For 2000 in particular, the objections differed massively from the 2020 objections on every one of those points.
Do you know the reasoning behind this?
You don't have to love it (I have similar complaints) but the tree tabs thing is weird. I've been using Tree Style Tab for a while and it doesn't have any issue like that.
>Researchers have suggested that alternatives to a carbon tax could include more direct taxation of mining — though with a high likelihood of chasing such activities away.

Framing regulations of Bitcoin in terms of in terms of environmental concerns versus economic ones seems like a potentially effective approach.
This is a good idea with the caveat that twitter gets more sane banning/suspension policies. For any interesting or non-traditional writers/thinkers, the process of building up a platform and having it taken away from you by some tech overlord is a very common experience. Most people with any audience who say anything of value are very wary of anything associated with twitter, so there needs to be some administrative and policy changes before anybody of value uses this.
Chamath Palihapitiya Running for CA Governor
My tabs have gotten out of control (they are in the hundreds (due to reasons)), but Firefox handles it quite nice. It only gets restarted after updates, so they are long-lived as well.

Chrome seem to struggle when there are tens of tabs.
In any country where voting preferences are strongly correlated with education (like the US, where it's particularly strong, but this effect exists in most places to some extent) you'd expect this sort of thing when looking at a company that generally mostly hired highly educated people.

_Age_ is likely also a factor. Google's employee base would be younger than many companies, but in general employees of most companies would be likely to vote more for the left in the US than the general population, because people above working age are more likely to vote for the right.
users can't see if their opt-out is successful in any case, only that their preference was submitted
Presumably none of these big players want to charge money for a pro service because it would be difficult to walk back on w.r.t ad revenue. The ad purchasers would probably take issue with it, especially given that they're explicitly valuing their user base at presumably less than they're charging for advertising access to them.

Not to say it couldn't work, but I'm guessing the reason it hasn't been tried is at least partially do to there being no going back
Did you read the article?

The film debuted at Sundance to broad critical appeal, with the Netflix CEO in attendance, and with tons of media coverage.

Netflix is already on the record pulling content at the specific request of Saudi Arabia. They explained their decision by saying they aren't in the 'truth to power business.'

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20953210/netflix-reed-has...

Thinking this is a niche film and thinking this decision is based on a simple profitability analysis is incredibly naive.
"Wall Street" is a metonym for the US finance industry. It doesn't refer to the actual location. Much like how if "the White House" does something, it means someone working for the POTUS, regardless of whether they're in that specific building or not.
Hi cuu508, CockroachDB engineer here. You are correct that row-level partitioning is not supported in the OSS version of CRDB. However, it sounds like there's a bit of confusion about where manual table partitioning is and is not needed. The primary use-case for row-level partitioning is to control the geographic location of various data in a multi-region cluster. Imagine a "users" table where EU users are stored on European servers and NA users are stored on North American servers.

If you are only looking to scale write throughput then manual partitioning is not be needed. This is because CRDB transparently performs range partitioning under-the-hood on all tables, so all tables scale in response to data size and load automatically. If you are interested in learning more, https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/architecture/distr... discusses these concepts in depth.
Even more interesting is that fact that the English word "slave" basically is "Slav".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs_(ethnonym)
There is a nice subplot in After the End - Survival¹ that deals with this. In it a well respected cardiologist finds himself useless post collapse, and is suffering from obvious minor medical problems.

¹ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25061009-after-the-end--...
Show HN: Bcrypt.ninja: a small in-browser bcrypt utility
Deep Learning does not even operate in the same space as where most of Semantic Web is being used today, some examples:

- https://schema.org/

- https://www.wikidata.org/

- https://lod-cloud.net/

- http://www.ontobee.org/

- https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?res_format=RDF&_res_format_...

- https://ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/

- https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/dataset?res_format=SP...

- https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/dataset?res_format=RD...

- https://data.nasa.gov/ontologies/atmonto/index.html

- https://data.europa.eu/euodp/linked-data
It's a meme
Your comment just shows how stubborn you are to prove a point.

At least I gave you the benefit of the doubt and seriously reflected about both yours and GP’s viewpoints.

I wasn’t talking specifically in this article context. It was a completely made up hypothetical situation yet actually does happen in real life resulting in deaths. According to a quick search when typing in “seatbelt deaths”, Google says in 2017 that ~33% of vehicle deaths in the U.S. were or could have been prevented if seatbelts were worn. That’s tens of thousands of people, _each year_.

What if you saw a drunk driver get into a car headed for the highway? Same response? “Oh, no you’re just exaggerating, he only lives 5 blocks down the street, he’ll be ok”.

You’re complaining about one extreme where people overreact over safety. Yet, you exist at the other extreme, telling people that they’re overreacting just to fit your narrative. Terrible.

EDIT: I see that the most recent comment was from a Dylan. I thought I had been replying to “throwaway”. Are you two the same person? It’s even more funny thinking that someone was so annoyed by someone talking about safety that they had to make a throwaway to complain lmao.
I used to take punctuation and grammar very seriously until I've met a person that studied literature(was almost a PhD at the time) and showed me a movement of people writing poetry without punctuation or proper grammar, as well they wrote like people spoke in different regions spoke colloquially in my home country. It gave those texts much more meaning, feeling and made sense, as rarely people spoke anywhere close as school lectured them to write it.

I've became quite fond of that idea, because I've always dealt with the "representation" problem having the background I have. Basically almost everybody in my country is poor and had "poor" education, our language was brought to us by europeans by force. I've never felt like the same as the people who had parents which spoked in a very polished way, because my parents didn't. So didn't my family and friends.

I've became a bit happier about myself and who I am as I started to accept the way I write. I also don't buy all the cultural heritage we've got and I believe I can think for myself and leave those tiny languages nuances, that might be important when people are writing laws or fancy books that I'm not interested at as I know that the reason behind those are usually to rip people off, or to feel that they don't belong. It's like a race of imperfect people to see who is the least imperfect, sort of tragic. Rather than people trying to find acceptance and who they are.

I feel it has a very negative impact to my fellow nation, as we can't really identify with the europeans and meanwhile we always feel like we are doing something wrong.
I think the difference in the workflow is very much as described. Often you will have test suites that run in tens of minutes at least due to heavy coupling and many integration tests. While the automatically incremental type checkers run in less than a second and you can run it on ever save.
I was under the impression semaphores use grid power as a clock source. And the case of missing payer in southern Balkan got the timing shifted by a few minutes.
This.
> I think it's nuts for a modern democracy to allow for anything but open source software being used to count paper ballots..
I cannot agree more.
Yeah, it's been a while since I've been in a high traffic situation, but back in the late 00s we had a couple sites with 3-5 million daily unique users. Each site had a single master, a couple read replicas, and some queries were cached in memcached.

The problem in MySQL we eventually ran into was the read replicas fell behind master during peak load (by 30-60 minutes depending upon the day). So we still had to hit the master for certain queries. I left before we took the next step to fix this issue.
> I couldn't vote as a European in UK but I would have voted Leave.

Thank God for that, as you seem to not understand any of the issues involved. Greece's problems relate to the Euro which the UK had opted out of. And the notion that some central EU interloper has invaded us and taken over our legislature is just fantasy put about by Little Englander and disaster capitalists.
I would like to add one of my finds (if it's already mentioned in the original post, sorry for the double) - the National Atlas of Japan (1977) [1].

Take a look at the railway traffic statistics [2]. The visualization there must have been painstaking to make.

[1] https://www.gsi.go.jp/atlas/atlas-e-etsuran.html

[2] https://www.gsi.go.jp/atlas/archive/j-atlas-d_e_49.pdf

edit:

The earthquake epicenter visualization is also worth mentioning:

[3] https://www.gsi.go.jp/atlas/archive/j-atlas-d_e_11.pdf
What's AI?

When the machine wakes up and asks, "Hey, what's in it for me?"

From the POV of the robot, Asimov's Laws are the spec for the perfect slave. :(

I've come to the conclusion, reluctantly, that the desire to make robot servitors in our own image is an unhealthy fetish. YMMV
It's weird you should say I don't want to hear it considering I mentioned specifically I wanted to hear what they were saying.
Hololens
I sure hope things continue to progress, but right now, having come from TypeScript, Python is quite a ways behind when it comes to static types. A few major differences:

- Library support for static types is not very good. This can be fixed, of course, but it's also very hard to fix in a concerted way. It'll just depend on the community getting on board.

- The syntax is limited. There isn't proper support for declaring generics, you have to declare a separate TypeVar, as a Python variable, somewhere else in scope and it just... gets used to approximate a generic. It mostly works, but sometimes it doesn't, and it's very unintuitive and awkward. And then concepts like Callable, Union, TypedDict, and Optional don't have dedicated syntax for readability; they're generic types that you have to import and parameterize. Etc.

- Support isn't great for highly "dynamic" data. TypeScript gives you powerful features for reasoning about dynamic property-sets of objects (dicts), combining and separating them, duck-typing, doing really complex inference, etc. These features in Python are usually some combination of unreliable, third-party, syntactically awkward, and so on.

- Inconsistency between different type-checkers. You'd think the fact that Python has standardized type syntax would help with consistency, but what it actually means is that everyone gets to define their own semantics for the same syntax. Different checkers mostly orbit around the same semantics, but there are always gaps. So for example, MyPy does a pretty good job of being strict and smart, but it's really slow. So you'll end up using an IDE-optimized checker for development, like Pytorch, but Pytorch will allow some things that MyPy doesn't and not allow some things that MyPy does. So you can use your IDE to get most of the way there, but you always have to remember to run a "real" type-check before you commit, or you may break the build in CI.

I should point out the one big advantage that Python has here: unlike TypeScript you don't need a build step, because Python interpreters can parse (and throw away) the type annotations. That's pretty nice, especially for gradual adoption/casual typing of scripts.

All of the problems (except maybe the syntax) are solvable, and I genuinely hope they get solved. For now, if you stick to primitives and core or class-based data structures you'll have a great experience with Python types. If you do anything more complex, the results will be mixed. This is of course much better than nothing, but it could be a lot better still. If you're picking between typed Python and TypeScript for a new project, it's worth factoring in.